When I heard the news....Please Someone tell me Im not the only one!!!!

Yesterday I was at a pub for lunch after my boyfriends softball game, when I asked a friend how an acquaintance of mine (good friend of hers) was feeling during her pregnancy. She said very matter of factly "she aborted it but is telling people it was a miscarriage."

When I heard her say that (almost felt like slow motion) my heart felt like someone hit it with a baseball bat. Here was a woman, around 26, who decided to abort. Intitially, I was angry and in pain, but today, I try and imagine what she was thinking and feeling on her way to the clinic, what was so bad or big that it trumped the life of her unborn child. What the hell was so damn important that it took precidence over a life.

Look, Im human and I know that it is virtually a cake walk to comment on a situation you have NEVER been in, but because this issue is so important to me, and is something I have prayed and thought about for years, I sincerely believe that there is no way I would ever consider aborting my child should I have an unplanned pregnancy. I just dont get, and perhaps this is one of my biggest faults, but I just dont understand how a woman (especially with her innate maternal instinct somewhere within her) could choose to terminate her child.

Again, as a human being with anger banging at my heart, I want to judge her, maybe even scream at her, but as a Christian, I know in my heart that my job as a witness is to pray, be active on the issue however I can, and to help this never happen again.

But doesnt anyone else, feel the sense of urgency and anger, and hostility towards those who choose to abort?

Please, someone tell me Im not the only one.....

Who Made You Judge & Jury???

Today, a blogger by the name of "real Christian" said that Pastor Walter Hoye, a man who was sharing a pro life message outside an abortion clinic in Oakland (now serving jail time for it) said that he was not a victim himself but rather a harraser "of intelligent women who are informed about their choices and who are making their own decisions. What an idiot - and what spin."

My reaction was to immediatly hit this person back with a fundamental query ""real Christian - i feel obliged to question where exactly the Christ is in your "real Christian" persona, when you can believe and feel compelled to argue that one human being has the right to decide whether another human being lives or dies. Who made you Judge & Jury?"

I agree that questioning things, topics, beliefs, whatever is a sign of intelligence. But to terminate a life, because it wasnt part of the plan or will make your life and others harder, is a sign of avarice, greed, and sloth. There really isnt a good enough reason in my mind, that choosing to abort a child is acceptable.

And how funny is it, that a person who calls themself "real Christian" , who has the nerve to put Christ in his name, would say that "intelligent women who make their own decisions, ie: choose abortion," are just.

I say time for those who side with Mr/Mrs/Ms. "real Christian" should consider what they really worship and believe in.


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